LOS ANGELES - ICANN announced in a press release the formation of the Generation Panel to develop root zone Label Generation Rules (LGR) for the Greek script.

Following the Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules, the Greek script community has submitted to ICANN the Proposal for Generation Panel for Greek Script Label Generation Ruleset for the Root Zone [PDF, 79 KB]. ICANN staff has reviewed the proposal including panel composition and scope, to ensure that requirements set forth in the LGR Procedure [PDF, 7.90 MB], and in particular the criteria set forth in the Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules, are fulfilled.

"On behalf of ICANN we are grateful to the Greek script community for volunteering to develop the Greek script LGR proposal for the root zone," said Sarmad Hussain from the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Program at ICANN. "I also want to thank the Hellenic Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks for coordinating this effort."

With composition and work plan approved, the Greek script Generation Panel will start its work on the Label Generation Rules. According to the LGR Procedure, the starting point of any Generation Panel's work is the Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR), with its second version (MSR-2) released on 27 April 2015. The full specification of Generation Panel's tasks can be found in the LGR Procedure in particular, Section B.3 "Variant Rule Generation Procedure".

"I'd like to take this opportunity to reiterate our appreciation for the efforts of many communities towards developing their root zone LGR proposals," said Hussain. "We still have more work to do including organizing script panels for Hebrew, Myanmar, Sinhala and Tibetan. I encourage all interested parties to lend their skills in support of this effort."

There are currently LGR efforts underway by Chinese, Cyrillic, Ethiopic, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Neo-Brahmi and Thai communities. In addition, the Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Khmer and Lao script communities have finalized their root zone LGR proposals. The Arabic script proposal has been integrated in the first edition of the root zone LGR.